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Prof. Dr. Koenraad Stroeken
Prof. Dr. Koenraad Stroeken
koen.stroeken@ugent.be
Academia
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Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
Department of Art, Music and Theatre Sciences
Research group(s)
CARAM - Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality
Research Focus
Area studies
Art
Interculturalism
Media
Religion
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Projects
Projects as supervisor
Green science, technology and innovation from the south. An interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania
(
2023
-
2027
)
The musical instrument as a form of three-dimensional writing and score
(
2021
-
2024
)
What is kiasili? An environmental anthropology of changing foodscapes in West Tanzania
(
2019
-
2024
)
Governance, gender, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania (Phase II: VLIRUOS-IUS MU)
(
2018
-
2022
)
Dagbon music and the Hiplife zone in Ghana
(
2016
-
2020
)
Hypermobile learning in an immobilized environment. Digital anthropology of ICT use in four Tanzanian universities
(
2016
-
2020
)
Chokwe identity, gender and materiality (Caribu)
(
2016
-
2017
)
The Hutereau expedition and chief Maloka. (Post)colonial layers of agency and exchange in NE Congo
(
2015
-
2019
)
Mfunzi. Applied digital anthropology
(
2015
-
2016
)
CongoConnect. Objects as agents. A historical-anthropological study of the Hutereau collection in the Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren
(
2015
-
2019
)
CongoConnect: Connections/Collections: power objects and institutions in Northeast Congo (1800-1960)
(
2015
-
2019
)
Culture and communication strategies in HIV prevention in Mozambique (VLIRUOS-IUS UEM)
(
2015
-
2018
)
Evaluating ownership of development projects in Suriname (VLIRUOS-IUS AdKU)
(
2014
-
2018
)
Udubsit. Applied digital anthropology
(
2014
-
2015
)
The promises of the independence movement, ethnicity and voting in Tanzania
(
2013
-
2016
)
Governance, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania
(
2012
-
2018
)
Developing Zone-it. A location-based app for community-building and research
(
2012
-
2013
)
Nodding syndrome in Northern Uganda. Conceptualizations of an illness-in-the-making
(
2012
-
2017
)
An anthropological study of traditional healing in Mozambique
(
2011
-
2017
)
Social connectivity and HIV risk behavior. Mobile phones and sexuality in Yaoundé youth culture
(
2011
-
2014
)
Response styles and the quality of survey data. Evidence from Guyana
(
2011
-
2014
)
Cooking life. The vibrant entanglement of food and human beings in Sri Lanka
(
2009
-
2013
)
Filafani in Folona. Moddertextiel en Sadogo-divinatie bij de Senufo van Folona, Mali
(
2009
-
2013
)
Projects as co-supervisor
Urban landscapes of colonial/postcolonial health care in DR Congo
(
2015
-
2019
)
Projects as researcher
Tracing Tensors. Infracultural analyses of simplicated worlds
(
2022
-
2026
)
Charms. An anthropology of affect and materiality
(
2017
-
2022
)
Medicinal rule. A historical anthropology of kingship in eastern and central Africa
(
2013
-
2017
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Stroeken, Koenraad. “Comment on Econography (Rudnyckyj).”
Current Anthropology
, vol. 65, no. 4, Chicago University Press, 2024, pp. 694–694.
Thomas, Troy D., et al. “Antecedents of Corruption Perception in Guyana.”
JOURNAL OF POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA
, vol. 16, no. 2, 2024, pp. 174–99, doi:10.1177/1866802x241235195.
Stroeken, Koenraad. “Medicine and Kingship : Endogenous Centralization in East and Central Africa.”
CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY
, vol. 64, no. 3, 2023, pp. 219–41, doi:10.1086/725199.
Stroeken, Koenraad.
Simplex Society : How to Humanize
. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-41115-1.
Stroeken, Koenraad. “Stigmatized Bodies near Lake Victoria : A Cultural Analysis of Institutions.”
FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE
, vol. 27, no. 2, 2022, pp. 741–51, doi:10.1007/s10699-020-09684-y.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology and Ethnography in Africa
Anthropology of Affect and Materiality
Medical Anthropology: Africa and the Diaspora
